![]() ![]() Musicianship and Restraint - Tom Corfield's organ playing impresses Tony WestermanĪdmirably Projected - Simon Hogan plays the organ at Derby Cathedral, impressing Tom CorfieldĮnsemble. Tonal Clarity - An organ recital by Daniel Gottfried impresses Mike Wheeler Vividly Projected - The Sitwell Singers' fiftieth anniversary concert, heard by Mike Wheeler Wonderfully Gutsy - Mike Wheeler listens to Franz Schmidt, Rachmaninov and Dvořák in NottinghamĮnsemble. A selection of articles about Franz SchmidtĮnsemble. He was slow to develop his own technique as a composer, but his reputation began to grow from the 1890s onwards, leading eventually to the oratorio The Book with Seven Seals (1935-7).ĭeclining health meant that he retired from the Academy in 1937 and he abandoned a commission from the Nazis to write a German Resurrection cantata in favour of two smaller commissions for pianist Paul Wittgenstein. He taught piano, cello, counterpoint and composition, and influenced many musicians who later became famous. By 1925 he had become director, and by 1927 the rector. In 1914 he became a piano professor at the Vienna Conservatory. His first job was as a cellist with the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra, often playing under Gustav Mahler, for whom he played all the cello solos, even though he wasn't the principal player. The family moved to Vienna in 1888, and Schmidt studied at the conservatory there with Robert Fuchs, Ferdinand Hellmesberger and Anton Bruckner. Austrian composer, cellist, pianist and teacher Franz Schmidt was born on 22 December 1874 in what is now Bratislava, to Hungarian and Austro-Hungarian parents.
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